Eastern
religious groups can operate in secular Western countries but as
minorities, who must always be careful about offending the majority,
and which seldom maintain any conversion efforts or have the funding
for them. Western missionary efforts in Eastern countries have a
long history and much economic might to support them. Clearly they
have not only the head start but a greater power in the race, which
is why they are stilling willing to run it. On a level playing
field, in which they are likely to lose converts, they would quickly
put an end to the game.

Perhaps the exception in this regard is Islam in America which is
now showing a more aggressive missionary face in the country,
particularly among Blacks and it does have some funding to back it
up from Islamic oil money. In this case Christians are beginning to
see the kind of religious aggression that they have long directed
against other groups, including using the downtrodden as an
instrument to convert a country.

Therefore this new tolerance in religion is usually a
pseudo-tolerance, with intolerant proselytizing groups playing the
game of appearing tolerant but doing little to justify the claim in
their actions. The problem is that Hindus are lulled to sleep but
such exercises in pseudo-tolerance. Hindus equate talk of tolerance
with tolerant action, which it is certainly not. True tolerance is
measured by one's ability to leave those who think differently
alone, not by being pleasant to others while still trying to convert
them in one way or another.